Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Calcite Psm Gaylussite

Views:
Watches:
PDM959792

Calcite Psm Gaylussite

Pseudomorph

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Obersdorf, Sangershausen, Saxony - Anhalt, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.2 × 0.7 cm
Description

Classic and attractive floater specimen featuring a couple of fusiform crystals of gaylussite that were replaced by calcite, which are referred to as "barleycorn" in the classic literature. It comes with two previous labels from the collection of Georges Vanacker* (specimen V/388), one from the archive and one that was exposed for many years with the specimen at the Vanacker’s Museum in Blankenberge (Belgium).

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

 

*Vanackerite from Tsumeb is named after him.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Gaylussite

Formula: 
Na2Ca(CO3)2·5H2O
Strunz: 
5.CB.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Lagunilla, Mérida, Venezuela

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps